The language of exoplanet ranking metrics needs to change

Andrew Casey; Anne-Sophie Libert; Caroline Dorn; Cayman Unterborn; Christine Houser; David Spiegel; Elizabeth Tasker; John Hernlund; Joshua Tan; June Wicks

arxiv: 1708.01363 · v1 · pith:XMLZZU43new · submitted 2017-08-04 · 🌌 astro-ph.EP

The language of exoplanet ranking metrics needs to change

Elizabeth Tasker , Joshua Tan , Kevin Heng , Stephen Kane , David Spiegel , Ramon Brasser , Andrew Casey , Steven Desch

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Caroline Dorn Christine Houser John Hernlund Marine Lasbleis Matthieu Laneuville Anne-Sophie Libert Lena Noack Cayman Unterborn June Wicks

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We have found many Earth-sized worlds but we have no way of determining if their surfaces are Earth-like. This makes it impossible to quantitatively compare habitability, and pretending we can risks damaging the field.

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